- Project Focused
You may want to do a shorter-term project. In that case, your group could
decide on one or more projects that interest you and listen to an existing
oral history recording or read a story that will be the basis and inspiration of
the project. You will still integrate the four language skills into your project – reading, writing, listening and speaking, as well as numeracy. But your project
won’t involve as much time for research and interviewing.
Literacy group members will build their Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun language
skills almost without realizing it – because they will be focused on the
research and the project, not on literacy and language skills. This is real-life
meaningful learning that enhances a whole person naturally through the
working to complete the project:
- Builds self-esteem and personal identity – heart and spirit.
- Builds literacy and critical thinking skills – mind.
- Builds practical and physical skills – body.
We would like to encourage literacy groups to share their work with others
through our Nunavut Literacy Council website. We will be happy to post
project descriptions, photographs, stories and other writing, journal entries – or whatever you would like to share – on our web site.
This information will help others who would like to try similar projects. If you
would like to send us a contact name and number, other groups will be able to
contact your group for advice and guidance.
Please contact the Rank in Inlet office or the Cambridge Bay office of the Nunavut
Literacy Council if you would like to share your oral history projects.
